California Privacy Policy and CCPA Data Request

This page contains the California Privacy Policy and the CCPA Data Request instruction below it. Here is a link to a PDF of the California Privacy Policy. 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY POLICY

If you are a California resident, this Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in Ginsu Brands or Wayne Water Systems doing business as Scott Fetzer Consumer Brands (SFCB) and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California including a business ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.

 Last Updated: 2/9/21

Scott Fetzer Consumer Brands (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) takes your privacy seriously.  We want you to know how we collect, use, share, and protect your Personal Information and about the rights of California Consumers under California law.

This Privacy Policy addresses the following topics

• The Scope of this Privacy Policy
• The Company’s Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
• Your California Privacy Rights
• How to Exercise Your Rights
• How We Will Verify Your Requests
• Requests by Authorized Agents
• The Company’s Non-Discrimination Policy
• Your Right to Information About Disclosures of Personal Information for Direct Marketing Purposes
• Your “Do Not Track” Browser Setting
• Third-Party Links and Services
• Minors Under 13 Years of Age
• For More Information
• Changes to This California Privacy Policy

The section of this policy entitled, “The Company’s Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information”, severs as your notice at collection required by California law when we collect personal information about you online.

The Scope Of This Privacy Policy

            What Is Personal Information?

“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California Consumer or household.  

Whose Personal Information Is Covered By This Policy?

This California Privacy Policy applies to the Personal Information of residents of the State of California in their capacity as consumers (“California Consumers”).

            What Personal Information Does This Privacy Policy Cover?

This Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Information of California Consumers that we collect both online and offline, including through California Consumers’ (a) visits to our website, and (b) use of our products, applications, or services that references this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).  

            Whose Personal Information Is Not Covered By This Privacy Policy?

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” does not include the personal information of California residents who are :

• Company’s employees, job applicants, owners, directors, officers, or independent contractors (collectively, “HR Individuals”), or the emergency contacts of HR Individuals or the dependents or spouses who receive Company benefits by virtue of their relationship to an HR Individual in their capacities as HR Individuals or emergency contacts, dependents, or spouses; or

• Employees or other agents of a business engaged in a transaction with Company in their capacities as employees or agents of that business.

What Else Should I Know About The Company’s Handling Of California Consumers’ Personal Information?

Please read Company’s Terms of Use and our General Privacy Statement available at above carefully, as they contain important information about your use of the Services. If you have any questions, please contact us using the information below.

The Company’s Collection, Use And Disclosure Of Personal Information

This section of the Privacy Policy describes, for the 12 months preceding the date last updated, above, (a) the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, (b) the sources of that Personal Information, (c) the business and commercial purposes for use, and (d) the categories of third party recipients of your Personal Information.  Unless we inform you otherwise, this section also serves as our “notice at collection” by informing you of your Personal Information to be collected in the future and the purposes for its use.

Categories Of Personal Information Collected

In the last 12 months, Company collected the following categories of Personal Information about California Consumers:  

• Identifiers, including: real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name.
• Categories described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e) (except those already listed in “Identifiers” above), including: none
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, including: none
• Commercial information, including: products and services purchased; product registration data; purchase, service, and installation dates.
• Biometric information, including: none
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browse or search history.
• Geolocation data, including: physical location
• Sensory information, including: none
• Professional or Employment-Related Information: non
• Non-public education information, including: none
• Profile information, including: attitudes collected from open-ended comments left by users on Company website; purchasing patterns.

Sources Of Personal Information and Purposes For Using Personal Information

In the last 12 months, Company collected the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following sources and used those categories of Personal Information for the following purposes:

Disclosure Of Personal Information To Third Parties

In the last 12 months, Company disclosed the following categories of Personal Information about California Consumers to the following categories of third parties for a business or commercial purpose:

No Sale Of Personal Information

The Company does not and will not sell California Consumers’ Personal Information.   

Your California Privacy Rights

Right to Know

California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request to know:

• The categories and specific pieces of Personal Information that Company has collected about them;
• The categories of sources from which Company collected the Personal Information;
• The categories of Personal Information that Company sold or disclosed to a third party (other than a service provider) for a business purpose and the categories of recipients of that information; and
• The business or commercial purposes for Company’s collection, disclosure, or sale of the Personal Information.

Right To Delete

• California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request for deletion of their Personal Information that Company has collected from the Consumer.

Right to Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information

• California Consumers have a right to opt-out of the sale of the Personal Information. However, as stated above, Company does not and will not sell Personal Information.

How to Exercise Your Rights

Company will respond to requests in accordance with applicable law if it can verify the identity of the individual submitting the request. California Consumers can exercise their rights in the following ways:

Contact by Mail: S.F. Consumer Brands - CCPA Department

28800 Clemens Rd.

Westlake, OH 44145.

Contact by Phone:  1-888.811.0005

Contact by Email: Privacy@scottfetzer.com

Requests By Authorized Agents

You may designate an authorized agent to exercise your right to know or your right to delete by submitting to us a completed “Authorized Agent Designation” form.  You can obtain the designation form by contacting us at info@sfconsumerbrands.com

If an authorized agent submits a request to know or a request to delete on your behalf, the authorized agent must submit with the request either (a) a power of attorney that is valid under California law, or (b) a document signed by you that authorizes the authorized agent to submit the request on your behalf.  In addition, we may ask you to follow the applicable process described above for verifying your identity

How We Will Verify Your Requests

To prevent anyone other than you, or your authorized agent, from exercising the right to know or the right to delete with respect to your personal information, we follow procedures to verify your, or your agent’s, identity.  These procedures seek to confirm that the person making a request is the person about whom we have collected personal information or that person’s authorized agent.  The verification procedures involve matching data points that you provide with your request against information about you we already have in our records and that we have determined to be reliable for purposes of verifying your identity.  We will use information you provide in your completed request form to verify your identity, and we may request additional information if necessary to complete the verification process.

The Company’s Non-Discrimination Policy

California Consumers have the right not to be subject to discriminatory treatment by Company for exercising their privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and Company will not discriminate on that basis. However, Company may charge a California Consumer a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods or services if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the California Consumer by the Consumer’s Personal Information.  If Company does so, it will provide Consumers with any legally required notice.

Your Right to Information About Disclosures of Personal Information for Direct Marketing Purposes: 

Under California law, California Consumers can request information from us whether we have disclosed Personal Information to any third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. We will not sell your Personal Information to, or share it with, third-party companies for their direct marketing purposes without your consent. California Consumers desiring to request further information about our compliance with these laws or who have questions or concerns about our privacy practices and policies are welcome to contact us using the contact information below.

Your ‘Do Not Track’ Browser Setting

The Site collects personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.  We support the Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting. DNT is a preference you can set in your browser’s settings to let the websites you visit, including the Site, know that you do not want the sites collecting your personally identifiable information.

Third-Party Links And Services

We provide links to third party websites operated by organizations not affiliated with Company. We do not disclose your Personal Information to organizations operating such linked third-party websites. We do not review or endorse, and are not responsible for, the privacy practices of these organizations. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of each and every website that you visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Company through the Services.

Minors Under 16 Years of Age

We respect the privacy of children. Our Services are not designed to attract an audience younger than sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under sixteen (16). If you are under the age of sixteen (16), you are not permitted to use our Services and should not send any information about yourself to us through the Services.  Please contact us using the contact details below if you believe we may have collected information from your child under the age of sixteen (16), and we will work to delete it.

For More Information

For questions or concerns about Company’s privacy policies and practices, please contact us at Privacy@scottfetzer.com

CCPA DATA REQUEST

If you would like to make a CCPA Data request please e-mail our customer service department by clicking the link below or print out this page and mail it to:

S.F. Consumer Brands - CCPA Department

28800 Clemens Rd

Westlake, OH 44145.

Privacy@Scottfetzer.com

888.811.0005

SFCB will reply to your request within seven business days from the day the request is received.

SFCB has 45 days to complete your request but will begin right away.

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Today’s Date* _______________________

Select Request Type:  (Choose one option per request)*

__ Request to Know                  __ Request to Delete

Choose your relationship with SFCB (Select All that Apply)*

__ Consumer Customer

__ Consumer – Not a Customer

__ Business Customer

__ No Relationship with UCFS

Are you submitting this request for yourself?*

__Yes                __ No (you must include a power of attorney or proof of guardianship

SFCB Consumer Account Number (if Available) ______________________

First Name* ___________________

Middle Initial ______

Last Name* _______________________

Primary Phone Number* _____________________      

Email* _______________________________

Date of Birth* _______________________________

Address*_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

City* ____________________________

State* ________________ 

Zip Code* ________________